Unit 1

What is Courage?

Reflecting on Your Reading

Reflecting on Courage: Read pages 16 & 17 in Literacy in Action 4A.

Complete two activities to help you reflect on your understanding of courage:

a Frayer Model Chart (Formative)
a written response about courage

To Reflect or Reflecting on your reading, means to think about what you have read;

think about the different stories you read
what were the themes and ideas in these stories
think about how the stories are related
look for similarities and differences in the stories
decide on your opinion of courage
relate the stories to what you already know
think about the reading strategies that helped you understand the ideas about courage

Girl Thinking

Review the work you completed so far, thinking about the theme, or main idea about courage in the different stories and pictures.

Gather ideas to answer the Big Question: "How do real people and fictional characters display courage?"